imclab / sociographer

Social graph visualizer.

Sociographer: Generate Awesome Social Graph Visualizations

Ever wanted a cool representation of social graphs from conversation logs? Probably not, but check it out:

Pretty neat, huh?

Getting Started

First, you'll need a config file. Check out the configs directory for examples of these. Once you have one, you can run:

$ sociographer -c config.json synopsis -o synopsis.json logfile.log

This will generate a synopsis file, which summarizes relations between users for faster processing.

Next, you can generate the .dot graph with:

$ sociographer -c config.json graph -o graph.dot synopsis.json

The graph can then be rendered using Graphviz (the fdp tool does the best job at it):

$ fdp -Tpng -ograph.png graph.dot

Ta-da!